>>9512465Bat mode is the part that made me want him so badly, and why I kept coming back to Mindwipe even though I had decided long ago that I wasn't paying an arm and a leg for a bot with a gimmik that I didn't want. He has no real visible changes to the Mindwipe mold (at least from the front), but comes in a nice red and black color scheme instead of purple and maroon. His wings can flex (though they clip in at his hips like a real bat's, so any posing is limited to the middle and tips of the wings), and I really like how creative the engineering is with them - they become his robot shins and feet by curling up on themselves, with his shoulders becoming his thighs. His bot head, which is now attached to him instead of becoming a separate bot, folds back behind his body in a similar way that his bat head does in robot mode; normally, that would leave it completely exposed from behind, but his cape completely hides it from all angles. On the note of that cape, it's cool how it's totally possible to transform him without ever actually taking it off, and it sits pretty securely in bat mode - especially if you pin it in place with his bot feet on the backsof his wings. His blaster and claw/cannon/buckler weapon are supposed to attach to one another and then clip under where his bot head is to hang behind him like a tail, but I've found it more saisfying to just plug the guns into his bot hands (tucked behind his bat legs, but still exposed enough to slip the guns into them) and tuck them under the cape as well, which looks far less awkward and doesn't break the bat silhouette the way the suggested transformation does.
Oh, yeah, he's also got a 'cockpit' that's a leftover from Mindwipe. It stored his Headmaster buddy originally, but now it's completely useless since Draculus' head stays attached. It can still be used to carry around a little bot buddy - or perhaps a kidnapped human virgin for him to snack on later like a squirming, blood-filled juice box...
